"The mission of the Handel and Haydn Society is to perform Baroque and Classical music for chorus and period-instrument orchestra at the highest level of artistic achievement. Founded as a choral society in 1815 by a group of Boston merchants, Handel and Haydn is among the oldest continuously performing arts organizations in the country. From its earliest years, the Society established a tradition of innovation, performing the American premieres of Handel’s Messiah in 1818, Haydn’s Creation in 1819, Verdi’s Requiem in 1878, and Bach’s B Minor Mass in 1887. The Society began performing Handel’s Messiah annually in 1854. Throughout its history the Handel and Haydn Society has brought the world’s most beautiful music and its greatest artists to local audiences, setting a standard for orchestral and choral performances that remains unparalleled. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

"Early Music West Midlands is a consortium of promoters and performers committed to supporting and advocating medieval, baroque and early classical music, particularly through historically authentic performance.

EMWM produces a regular diary of events with details of performances and workshops throughout the region. We also offer advice and support to local music promoters and work to increase audiences for early music, through our mailing list promotions, and presenting performances at events such as ArtsFest in Birmingham. We are also working on education projects to introduce children and young people to early music. " ...

"ARTA is an organization that provides a support network for recorder teachers and acts as an advocate and source of information for recorder pedagogy.

ARTA encourages professionalism in recorder education by making available current research and ideas to those in the teaching profession, and by enlarging the circle of recorder teachers who have access to such information.

ARTA maintains a network of contacts that members can call upon for help and to which they can contribute ideas and informal communications. " Visit website for more information. (ed')

"THE LUTE SOCIETY, founded in 1956, exists to promote the lute and its music. Even if you can't make it to our meetings and recitals in London, joining the Lute Society is an excellent way of building up your music library, and of keeping in touch with news in the Lute world. We are happy to retail our publications to non-members. The Society currently has around 730 members (2006, May). " See website for more information. (ed.)

"The American Musical Instrument Society is an international organization founded in 1971 to promote better understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction, restoration, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods.

The membership of AMIS includes collectors, historians, curators, performers, instrument makers, restorers, dealers, conservators, teachers, students, and many institutional members. All individual members have full voting rights and, with the exception of spouse members, receive the Society's publications. " See website for more information. (ed.)

“The Workshop Series - classical music concerts in Lewes, East Sussex, UK

The Workshop Series is a classical music concert series based at the workshop of harpsichord maker Malcolm Rose in Lewes, East Sussex, UK. Over 20 years the series has built up an enviable reputation for presenting world-class artists in an atmospheric, intimate and friendly setting.“

"Designed to highlight the opening events of New York City artists and presenters specializing in historically informed performance (aka 'early music"), Celebration '07 will encompass a six week period in the fall, a veritable cornucopia of activity spanning the gamut from medieval to classical repertoire, performed by individual artists to baroque orchestras, in chamber concerts to symposia, including professional, recreational and educational events. " ...

"The Association Alessandro Scarlatti was founded in 1919, with the aim of making known the ancient Italian music, which at that time was facing a genuine revival, by the most sensitive part of culture, music or not. Indeed, one of the founders of Scarlatti were not only musicians as Emilia Gubitosi, later joined by Franco Michele Napolitano and Vincenzo Vitale, or as John Tebaldini, but also writers like Salvatore Di Giacomo and people of culture as Maria De Sanna. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

“We come together to discuss the life, times and works of the author, to visit places important in her life; sometimes to dress in Regency finery, and to perform her music and dances! We meet or go on expeditions every couple of months, the meetings normally in North Oxford.

The Austen family had links to the city and University of Oxford: we are engaging in research to find out more about Jane's schooling here, and the family's association with Brasenose and St John's College. The group was founded in October 2009 as Oxford's first and only Jane Austen Society for many decades (so far as we have been able to find out!).

We also have strong interest in the music of the period, and the historical aspects of domestic performance: Jane pulled together a large corpus of contemporary and traditional works, adding her own embellishments and arrangements for performing them at home.”

“The Mississippi Academy of Ancient Music is devoted to the performance and appreciation of "early music", primarily music before 1800 performed on the instruments originally intended and using the practices of the time. We sponsor the world's finest local and international artists in concert performances and educational activities in local schools.

The Academy grew out of a series of musical birthday parties held by Dr. Ernst Borinski of Tougaloo College. When Dr. Borinski bought an evening of music for his party from John Paul at an ACLU auction, neither realized that that the parties would expand, and lead to the formation of the Mississippi Academy of Ancient Music. His 80th and 81st birthday parties moved to Edwards, in the home that became the Academy.

The Academy is named after the English group, the Academy of Ancient Music, in turn named after an ensemble from Handel's era, when "ancient" meant just twenty years old! Ultimately, of course, the name was chosen because of the delightfully southern acronym which results. And we still promote music before 1800 as well as anything 20 years old...”

"The Hungarian Haydn Society was formed at the end of 1996 on the initiative of the excellent concert organizer Kálmán Strém, who until his death in 2005 devoted himself to the cause of creating world-class concert life at Eszterháza (the present-day Esterházy palace at Fertőd). For this reason the Society's first and most important act was to establish the "Haydn at Eszterháza" festival, which has been held every September since 1998 and has won serious international recognition. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

"SSCM is dedicated to the study and performance of seventeenth-century music and related arts. The Society currently includes more than 280 members and over one hundred additional international subscribers to its electronic newslist SSCM-L. Members receive a semi-annual newsletter, 17th-CENTURY MUSIC. The Society also publishes the on-line, peer-reviewed scholarly Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music; JSCM Instrumenta, an on-line reference series; and the Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (WLSCM), an on-line collection of performing and study scores in scholarly editions. " See website for more information. (ed.)

"The Medieval Music & Arts Foundation is a non-profit public benefit corporation organized in order to nourish understanding of medieval music and related subjects. The focus of the Foundation is on the general public, and its intended niche is that between the truly academic scholarly publications and the more money-oriented commercial concerns. We hope to adopt a restrained dignity in our endeavors, without indulging in hype and without being exclusionary. " ...

The Stichting Blokfluit (Recorder Foundation) is a non-profit organisation which aims to stimulate and promote the recorder's repertoire in every possible field by making it worldwide accessible for the public.

One of the foundation's most important activities is the publication on the net of two comprehensive catalogues, the Catalogue of Contemporary Blockflute Music (CCBM) and the Catalogue of Historical Recorder Repertoire (CHRR). ..

The CCBM is an idea of Walter van Hauwe, founder of the Stichting Blokfluit. When he started this project, around 1988, he had about 400 titles of original recorder music written after the year 1900, while he estimated another 300 works still undiscovered. Now, 20 years later, more than 5000 titles can be found in the CCBM, presumably 95% of the world-wide total. ..“ Visit website for more information. (ed.)

We enrich, educate and inspire the Central Indiana community through performance of 17th and 18th century music. We believe in the importance of fostering connections between the past and present; building a sense of community and mutual understanding; and encouraging the process of self discovery though music.“

"This chapter of the Viola da Gamba Society of America (VdGSA ) is based in sunny Tucson, AZ. It was incorporated as a non-profit and tax-exempt [501 (c) 3] organization in October 2001. It pursues the same goal as its parent organization, i.e. the enjoyment of playing the viola da gamba, a musical instrument of the Renaissance period. To facilitate this goal, the VdGS - Southern AZ will conduct monthly meetings during the school season and it will organize an annual workshop." Visit website for more information. (ed.)

“The International Shakespeare Association (ISA) offers an opportunity for individuals and institutions to join together to further the knowledge of Shakespeare throughout the world. Its central commitments, outlined in its constitution, are to link the work of various Shakespeare associations and societies and to advise on the foundation and development of new associations; to advise on the initiation and planning of the World Shakespeare Congresses; to support an information centre, covering research, publication, translation, and performance; to circulate a diary of future performances, conferences and graduate courses; to aid travel in the interests of Shakespeare scholarship and performance and to coordinate and support requests for finance from internationally cooperative projects.”

“The "Thüringer Bach Weeks" are a project of the association "Thüringer Bach Festival Association" The club was founded in 2004 and currently has about fifty members, who work for maintenance and performance of Baroque music, particularly the works of Johann Sebastian Bach in Thüringer.”

"The Society was formed in October 1946 for the publication of original research into the history, construction, development and use of musical instruments. Its name commemorates the pioneer work of Canon Francis W. Galpin (1858-1945) who had spent a lifetime in the practical study of old instruments, in collecting them and recording their history.

The first President of the Society was Professor J.A. Westrup, with the following as Vice-Presidents: Mrs Arnold Dolmetsch, Dr Rosamund E.M. Harding, Walter F.H. Blandford, Adam Carse and Christopher J. Galpin.

While the initial focus was on European instruments, the need to encompass `musical instruments of all kinds was soon recognised. The Galpin Society has succeeded over the years in catering for an ever-widening range of interests within the fold of organology, as well as stimulating inter-disciplinary collaboration and the fruitful exchange of ideas. Moreover, the geographical coverage of the Society's membership list has kept on spreading: no fewer than thirty-nine countries are now represented. " See website for more information. (ed.)

"The Foundation for the Revival of Early Music is the principal promoter of pre-19th century music in the Russian Federation. The Foundation’s flagship project is the International EARLYMUSIC Festival, founded in 1998, and which takes place every September in St Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and other cities of Russian Federation. Festival concerts present the musical legacy of the Middle-Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. The Foundation stages early music throughout the year, and has over the past eight years presented to Russian audiences most leading European orchestras, ensembles, and soloists in the field of early music.

In 2001, the Foundation created the Catherine the Great Orchestra, Russia’s first professional baroque orchestra, which tours regularly in Russia and abroad. We promote the development and professional training of young musicians in authentic performance through regular master-classes and lectures in collaboration with the Moscow and St Petersburg State Conservatoires.

The Foundation carries out extensive research in Russian archives with the aim of bringing to light and restoring to its legitimate place Russia’s 18th century musical legacy. Our publishing programmes include facsimile editions of music from these archives, as well as translations of key European musical treatises. In 2003, the Foundation was co-producer with the Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival of a fully staged production of Giovanni Paisiello’s classical opera ‘I Filosofi Immaginari’, composed for Catherine the Great in 1776. The opera was performed in Utrecht and at the Hermitage Theatre as part of the official 300th anniversary celebrations of St Petersburg.

Since 2006 the Foundation is a member of the European Early Music Network REMA (Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne), which brings together the representatives of the most important early music festivals and centers in Europe. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

"Aliusmodum stems from the will of Andrea Riderelli and Cipriana Smarandescu to create an association dedicated primarily to the repertoire baroque music, and a group using interpreters of great experience in the field of performance of baroque music and experience in national and international. ... " (Google translation. ed.) Visit website for more information. (ed.)

“The Over the Water Hurdy-Gurdy Association (OTW for short) is a group of hurdy-gurdy players, builders, and aficionados based mostly in Western Washington (USA). We put on French music jams and dances in the Seattle area (with live hurdy-gurdy music, of course) and an annual hurdy-gurdy festival and Saturday dance on the Olympic Peninsula. ..“

“From Monteverdi's Orfeo to the Tribun of Mauricio Kagel, from the birth of opera to its maturity, Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing. in its 30 years of existence, has explored four centuries of music: Campra, Handel, Lully, Mozart, Monteverdi, Rameau, Vivaldi, Weill, opera seria, opera buffa, tragic opera, musical theater, melodramas, sacred music: it is thus, that, over the seasons, Atelier lyrique has established itself as a test bed of original events. Much of this creative work builds on a collaboration with orchestras and the use of original instruments: La Grande Ecurie du Roy and the Chamber. ...”